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IRIT - UMR 5505

CNRS
INPT
UPS
UT1
UTM
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  Senac Christine


  Statut : Permanent
  Service / Equipe :  Structuration, Analyse et MOdélisation de documents Vidéo et Audio
  Contact : Christine.Senac@irit.fr
  Localisation : IRIT1 / Niveau 2, Pièce: 226
  Téléphone : 05 61 55 88 35
  Publications : Publications

 

Education

  • Graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique, Electrotechnique, Informatique et Hydraulique de Toulouse (ENSEEIHT) (Mathematics & Computer Sciences), in 1989 I supported a PhD titled "Contribution à l'étude du décodage acoustico-phonétique" (Speech Processing) in Computer Science from the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse.  Advisor: Guy Pérennou

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Research

Research topics

Previous research topics

    • Spoken language processing : acoustic-phonetic decoding using two levels Hidden Markov Models 
    • Merging  visual and audio information to improve speech recognition systems
    • Soundtrack indexing of multimedia documents
    • Speaker segmentation and verification in noisy environment and classifiers fusion

 

Supervision

  • PhD Thesis
    • Nicolas Dauban 2017- : "Expertises Musicale et Cognitive pour une REcommandation Musicale personaliséE"
    • Philippe Ercolessy 2009- 2013 : "Extraction Multimodale de la structure narrative des épisodes de séries télévisées"
    • Elie El Khoury 2007-2010: "People indexing in the audiovisual  contents"
  •  2nd year - Master Degree 
    • Evan Graïne (2017-2018): "Study of user music preference with non intrusive and indirect computational metrics"
    • Nicolas Dauban (2016-2017): "Recommandation musicale avec expertise musicale et cognitive"
    • Florian Mouret (2015-2016): "Personalized music recommendation based on audio features"
    • and 7 previous internship students
  •  1st year - Master Degree 
    • Tom Bourgeade & Mel Ferrer (2016-2017): "Identification nommée du locuteur"
    • Nishan Mishra (2016-2017): "OCR for video analysis"
    • J. Gonzalez (2014-2015): "Application mobile pour constitution de groupes de loisirs en temps réel"
    • and 5 previous internship students

Projects 

  • VICTORIA 2017-2020 : H2020 - SEC program of the European Commission. "Video analysis for Investigation of Criminal and TerrORIst Activities".
  • ECREME 2017-2020 : Projet Région. "Expertise musicale et Cognitive pour REcommandation Musicale personnalisée".
  • DEFI-REPERE 2011-2014 : ANR/DGA project. Program promoting research on technologies for automatic multimedia recognition of persons within television documents.
  • QUAERO 2008-2013 : OSEO project . Program promoting research and industrial innovation on technologies for automatic analysis and classification  of multimedia and multilingual documents.
  • ANR programme blanc - Masse de Données 2007-2010 « EPAC : Exploration of audio documents for the conversational speech extraction and processing».  
  • MUSCLE 2006-2008 : IST Network of excellence. "Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computing and Learning".
  • BQR AO1  2007-2008 (project of the UPS):« Recherche automatique des intervenants dans une séquence audio-visuelle par une approche multimodale » . 
  • STIC-CNRS 2002-2004 « RAIVES : Automatic Retrieval of Audio & Speech Informations». 
  • RIAM  2002-2004: "FERIA : Framework for Indusdrial Realization and Experimentation of multimedia Applications".
  • RNRT 1999-2001 « AGIR : Global Architecture for Search and Indexing ». 
  • PRC-Informatique CNRS 1994-1998 : « AMIBE ». 
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Visibility,membership, committees

  • National Membership
    • Elected member of the CNU 27 (Comité National des Universités) (2011-2015)
    • Elected member of the AFCP (French Association of Spoken Communication) (2008-2014) 
  • Teaching
    • M2-EEA SIA : head of the module   (since 2016): "Audio signal: speech and music"
    • M1 IARF-IGAI-DC : head of the module   (2011-2015): "Introduction to machine learning"
    • M1 IARF-IGAI : head of the module   (since 2011): "Introduction to audio signal"
    • L1 : head of the module   (2011-2014): "Algorithm and ADA"
    • M1 International Master IS : head of the module   (2009-2011): "Speech Processing"
    • M2R AVI : head of the module   (2009-2010): "Characterization of the human in audiovisual contents"
  • University Administration 
    • Elected member of the Educational Board (for computer science) of  Département Informatique (since 2016)
    • director of studies for  1st year - Licence Degree in 2009-2010
    • Elected member of the Educational Board (for computer science) of  UFR MIG (2008-2010)
    • Appointed member of the  International Relations of the UPS  (2006-2008)
    • Appointed member of the board of  Health & Security of the UPS (2008-2010)
  • Research 
    • Program  Committees & Organizing Committees
      • Reviewer for  journals:  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters , Multimedia tools and application, EURASIP journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing
      • Scientific committee for international conferences  ICASSP, InterSpeech, MMEDIA, CARI, for international workshop  CBMI, and for national conference JEP
      • Organizing committee for the international  workshop MMUA 2006
  • Mobility 
    • Invited researcher  (2003-2004)  at the UNSW Sydney (Department of Signal processing)
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Teaching